Something a bit different today, in that our featured track can’t be bought or downloaded, and doesn’t even have a title; instead it takes the form of a strangely beautiful video filmed by two British Antarctic Survey researchers, Jim Elliot and Rob Webster.
Over-wintering on the white continent, the pair alleviated the boredom and isolation by turning objects found in their research station – saucepans, wine-glasses etc – into percussion instruments, then adding acoustic guitar and violin into the mix, creating an haunting, folk-tinged instrumental that neatly complements the silent, ice-bound beauty of their surroundings. Somewhere, Sigur Ros are grinding their teeth with jealousy.
The clip was recorded at the Rothera Research Station, which is fast becoming Antarctica’s musical hub: it was at Rothera that the band Nunatak played a concert for 17 people in aid of Live Earth in 2007.
[Note: there’s no sound for the first 30 seconds].
11:53 AM | 10/03/2008
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